Souza's Case

On August 6, 1919, Emili Souza, an employee of the Globe Yarn Mill at Fall River, sustained an injury to her thumb by having it drawn into a calender roller. At a hearing before a member of the Industrial Accident Board on October 11, 1920, it was decided, on conflicting evidence, that the employee as the result of her accident was suffering from hysterical paralysis of the right extremities. On December 8, 1922, at a hearing before a different member of the Industrial Accident Board on the question “Whether or not the employee’s condition of in*443capacity is due to or causally related with a…